Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Dmitri Danish
Ukrainian artist Dmitri Danish was encouraged by his parents to take up painting at an early age, and was accepted to the Kharkiv State Art College at the age of 15. He followed up with later study at the Deapartment fo Fine Art at Kharkiv State University and achieved membership to the Union of Ukrainian…
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Eye Candy for Today: Bouguereau’s Spinner
The Spinner, William-Adolphe Bouguereau; larger version here Somehow, despite my fondness for nineteenth century academic art, I can’t get all goggle-eyed and worshipful of Bouguereau the way they do over at the Art Renewal Center. Neither do I jump on the bandwagon of reviling him as facile and shallow, or as an enemy of the…
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Ukiyo-e Search
Ukiyo-e is a genre of Japanese woodblock prints extending in time from the early eighteenth century to the early twentieth. It was followed by the early twentieth century genres of Shin-hanga and Sosaku-hanga, which carried forward some of the Ukiyo-e sensibilities while adding their own characteristics, particularly in the adoption of visual techniques from Western…
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Eye Candy for Today: Hassam summer garden
The Water Garden, Childe Hassam Did somebody say “Summer”? In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use Fullscreen link.
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Eye Candy for Today: Inness pines
Pine Grove of the Barberini Villa, George Inness This soft, moody landscape by Inness is given an almost Pre-Raphaelite feel by the shapes of the Italian pines. In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use Fullscreen link.
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Jacob Kerssemakers
Most painters who buy canvas by the roll cut off rectangles in common sizes. Dutch artist Jacob Kerssemakers, in contrast, cuts his 30 foot rolls lengthwise into horizontal strips, 10 to 20 inches high, to accommodate his novel approach to plein air painting on long scrolls. There is a short film by Roland Kemp on…